davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1887-01-14

lettering ts the above, we would say
mat we shall continue the business at the
Ola stand, 1910 Larimer street. We
snail spare no effort to please our patrons
andIto keep up the high standard of our
predecessors. Our stock will at all times
DC Kept as complete as possible, and our
prices will always be as low as is consis-
tent with a moderate profit. Yours res
pectfully,
THE ROBERTS HARDWARE co.
, 1887-01-14

Legal blanks at the Leader Office
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05

landscape, by painter of reputation, which
to the eye of the ordinary observer is but a
pleasing pastoral scene, he sees unutterable
things and speaks with emotion of the artists
genius, bis breadth, and power, and prom
Use of growth. His soul swells with deep feel
ing as he gazes at, say, the kiss of the Siren,
if his subsequent deliverances on the subject
are to be believed. Others may admire this
picture for the mere beauty of the female fig
ure, the sweep of the water or various other
obvious features, and be no more overwhelmed
by the Thoughts of love, and death, and des-
tiny" which is its motive, than they are by
contemplation of masculine temptation
through feminine Establishments in daily life.
It is a deep and impressive thought, no
doubt that such things be, but ali the world,
save the art enthusiasts, are able to consider
it with calmness All the world, indeed,
CARDS this enthusiast with distrust. It doubts
the genuineness of his ecstasies and views his
tears with scorn. 1t is willing to admit that
the primrose by the rivers brim may be some
thing more than yellow primrose to him,
but fatty refuses to believe that it is an
tire flower garden and several volumes of
poems, besides. It resents the assumption
that his appreciation of art or literature is so
much deeper and more intense than its own
and persists in regarding him as a humbug
and bore
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05

with that in any other Part of the country or
world. Then, not to mention other charms,
our beautiful vegetation in the spring of the
year, the rollicking greenness of the grass, the
splendid foliage Of the trees, and the prolific
wealth of Towering plants and shrubbery are
a never-ending attraction. Just now these
charms of nature at their best. Every
thing in or the ground, from the biggest
tree to the tiniest plant, from the huge
elm, whose spreading branches mark
more than a century's growth, to
the enterprising little weed that
sprung up yesterday at its roots is instinct
with energy, life and growth We should be
thankful that the beauties of nature do not
have to be piped to the city, and are not sub
ject to the control of any monopoly or ring.
Nobody can turn them off or put up the price.
They are as necessary to life bread and
meat, and spring vegetables, and nature
spreads them with lavish hand for every body's
use. Such trees, and grass, and flowers as we
have here at this season of the year would
compensate for a good many defects of
eli
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

A BAPTIST minister is confined in Jail in Illi-
nois against his Free Will.
P1TTsBURG Chronicle: There is temperance
man in Pittsburg conscientious that he OBJ
jects to take full receipt.
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE, now in Paris, will go to
the City of Mexico in September to arrange for
the publication there of Spanish-American
newspaper.
LEEDS Mercury: The author of Home,
Sweet Home" never had a home, and George
Macdonald. who has eleven children, is the
thor of s'Annals of Quiet Neigh borhood."
J. c. HADLEY, of Little Flats. n. Y. while
riding wagon with his ten-year-oid son and
a little nephew, piled them with whisky until
his son fell from the wagon and was crushed to
death by the wheels.
MILL1oNAIRE FLOOD has recently inclosed his
San Francisco palace with a bronze fence which
cost $50, 900. and he is adding two large
bronze gates, each weighing 1000 pounds and
which will cost 5000 more
A COPY of the picture of Farragut dashed to
the rigging in the naval fight at Mobile bay,
which was painted for the Gar. Is still in the
possession of Mrs. John Watson. of this city,
the daughter of the artist, Mr.. Page.
A DETROIT doctor calls attention to the dan
ger in large cities of infection from the promis-
cuous use of the mouthpiece of public tele-
phone, and recommends that the MOUTH piece be
cleansed with alcohol. carbolic acid or vinegar.
SIR ALGERNoN, BoRTHwIcK, editor of the
London Morning Post, is just too dainty to live
He requires ali the copy in his office be pre-
pared pink-tinted paper by elegant young
who write with violet-colored and perfumed
ink.
TID-BITs: "May ask what the middle in
your name signifies, Miss Bullionl" Certainly,
Mr.. De Crashhe. It stands. for Shazzar."
"Shazzarl" Eyes; I named after emil
nent woman mentioned in the Scriptures-'Belle
Shazzar.'"
RUDOLF HERTzoG is the largest dry goods
merchant in Berlin. He spends $4,000 year
in advertising. He says that before he began to
advertise he barely Cleared his expenses The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
COLORED PEOPLE AND LAND.

At the recent meeting of the trustees of the
Slater fund at Hampton, Va, some statements
were made in regard to the condition and
prospects of the freedmen in the South which
indicate that the Henry Geore free-land
theorists are not likely to find many adherents
among the negro population. General Arm
strong, of Hampton, DR.. Northrop, of Con-
necticut, and others who have given the
matter close attention, testify that the passion
of the colored man for owning land is one of
the most cheering signs of his future, and is
of the greatest possible aid in solving the
problem of his education in the rights and
duties of citizenship. 1t is agreed everywhere
that the negroes who own their farms, or even
a small bit of ground better neighbors,
better citizens and better men in every way.
With the dignity of ownership comes sense
of responsibility, and desire which was
lacking before to secure other advantages in
the way of education and improved methods
of living. The feeling reused is, in fact, the
very foundation of good citizenship, and no
surprise should be occasioned at its develop
ment among the freedmen, since the principle
is one which has been seen to operate repeat
eddy in civilizing the hordes of half barbarous
foreigners who have come to this country in
search of homes. As proof of the progress
the freedmen are making, the fact that they
now own 5000, 900 acres of land in the cotton
States, in Georgia alone holding 700, 900 acres
is very convincing one. There was time
after the war when a negro could find no one
to sell landed property to him; but this preju-
dice is rapidly dying away, and his money is
now as acceptable as that Of any other pur-
chaser. The old question of what shall be
done with the black man is rapidly being
solved by the black man himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
Ex-senator Jones Talks Again.


I'm some respects it is great honor to be
Senator of the United States" said ex-senator
Jones, placing his hands behind him, and pacing
nervously back and forth across the tesselated
floor OF the Russell House corridor .tAnd yet
it is very far from being the honor that it once
was. Money is having too much influence in
the selection of men for the position This is
not much the case in choosing Southern Sem
ators, however. Those still selected more
for their ability than the men from the
North Yes, have slight acquaintance with
the man who was elected my successor. He
has always been more less OF politician.
NV friends wonder why did not make more ct
an effort to be returned7 Well, perhaps they co.
There is more in this matter than has yet ap-
peared upon the surface. It will all come out
some time. There is also more in these news
paper attacks upon me than the general public
are yet aware of. That will also come out in
time. 1 only waiting the turning of the
tide when crooked paths shall be made straight
There was a time when / thoroughly enjoyed
serving as United States Senator
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
CONCERNING CLIMATE AND OTHER THINGS

Every climate has its drawbacks. Almost
with has its charms, but none is perfect.
Doubtless it was not intended they Should be
or life would be all too enjoyable. The
world and the life we live seem to be largely
made up of compensations, system of checks
and balances where pleasure and pain, sue
cesses and disarpointments, gains and losses
alternate and succeed each other in such
fashion as to preserve equilibrium in ex-
istence and make our lives duly marbled with
fat and lean. And so with climates. There
is none intolerable, yet none perfect. Almost
every one has its attractions yet all have
their drawbacks. And if the climate is near
" perfect the drawback comes in some other
way-in lack of vegetation, lack of water or
some other element of happiness. In
Southern California, where the sun shines
much the larger part of the year and
the climate is so fine as to exhaust the
language of eulogy.. men. from the States
familiar trees. in Florida, where the Span
iards located the fountain of Health" the
water is almost uniformly bad. This eli
mate Of ours, the climate of the Mississippi
valley, and, more locally, of central Indiana,
may not DO the best in the world, but it is
far from the worst. Like the rest, it has its
attractions and its drawbacks, its strong
points and its weak ones. If we have good
many unpleasant DAVIS in the year we have
also fair share of charming ones. If our
winters are pretty cold and our summers
pretty hot, our spring and fall seasons are
delightful beyond description. Some diseases
prevail here more than elsewhere, but
comparatively free from others. Some people
do not have good health here, but as many
more thrive better here than anywhere else.
The average duration of life and the average
enjoyment Of life here will compare favorably
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
The Street-Car Drivers.

To work from early dawn until late at night
at a most lnonotonous aud wearisome occupa-
ton, exposed to all kinds of weather eat their
meals in hasty snatches, to have few midnight
hours for home and Sleep to have no Sunday. to
be strangers to their families, these have made
the lot of the street-car driver at a remuneration
sufficient only keep body and soul together
enable them to do a better part by those depend
ing upon them flor they have no time to enjoy
anything themselves) might cost Col. johnson
some inconvenience or it night not If he can
strike ne could jnst well put the money TO
better uses by giving it TO the fellows,
whose wives and children are the chief sufferers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
How to Correct Tom Johnsonism.

saturday independent
The solution of the street-car troubles lies IN
the building of new line by new company.
What We need is opposition to the old stree1-cal
company, which is controlled by narrow-gauge
and narrow minded men, who are disposed 10
drive the people of this city much as they drove
slaves in tho South. They can't get it into tnelE
thick heads that the people have any rights OF
they are bound to give the public anything OF
make any concessions for the free use OF on.
streets or other privileges they enjoy. Iney ~
like big hog that gets both feet in the trousu
to keep the other hogs from getting their snars
of food. Occasionally such hogs OVERSEE tne
trough and spill the milk. Is it not possible Una.
Kunnel johnson may perform like fea' a ir
exasperate the people until they will sno" niu1
that tho people are all powerful after all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
Wholly Unprepared.


-
Mrs Colonel Yerger is continual source "
embarrassment TO her husband. Coonei feL Iso.
recently gave dinner party to few SEA
on for an after dinner speech. Colonel l ere
got up, and, assuming imposing posltio -
began: Ladies and gentlemen unpreparsu .
l am-being wholly unprspared to maAe
speech-beinp unnrenared-" He was unable
to proceed There was a painful silence WnIeA
was broken by Mrs. Yerger. saying:
Colonel. you knew it perfectly this mornihs-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
The Tom johnson Candidate for Mayor.

Saturday People.
We are afraid that Dr. Edenharter has not
gained many votes for the mayoralty by his
course in Council on the street railway question.
He opposes granting special privileges to any
more street railroad companies. If the Doctor
had been judicious he would have favored any
citizen having little railroad of his own il he
wanted one and can support il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
Unfermented Grape Juice.

PhiladeIphia Record -.
One of the good Presbyterian brethren OF .ne
General Assembly declared that he would lAa .s5
at the man who should say that uuieI r., .hs;r
crane mice is not wine. The saints veil tness
faces We are told. when good men fall TO slas
culine error; yet this earnest soul might Luz nv.
should be 60 out into the great world, tnss 49,
laugh was irrevocably against him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05

instead of trading AS he talked with the Bishop
he grew like the "old white man" more and
more and at last he said:
1--WE have heard that the men of Kumbua are
coming to make war upon US. They lie between
here and Malange. You will not venture to
continue your journey before we have defeated
them and brought about peaceg
Eyes, o King" replied the Bishop. 81 shall
60 on as can. 1 am friend to the peo-
pie of Mambaluneo and their king, but am also
a friend to the Kumbuans and their king like
There is no danger for me from them any
more than there is danger from you. There is
One above me to guard and protect me-"
THE white mans God is indeed very power
full" assented the King. gravely. land the white
man speaks bravely and frankly. None other
would permit pass from our town to tho
army of the kumbuans. believe you nv
friend and will show you that am yours
He thereupon summoned his chief lieutenant
and after brief talk with him sat down on the
floor of the hut and beckoned the Bishop to sit
beside him. The lieutenant then did some talk
ing the purport of which that the King de-
sired to cement the friendship he had formed
for the white man by having the ceremony of
blood brotherhood performed upon them The
Bishop consented, although he knew little of the
ceremony. The lieutenant produced sharp
pointed knife, highly polished. which he touched
upon his tongue whsther to test it's sharpness
after the manner of BARRIERS or to give proof that
it was not poisoned. the Bishop could not be GER
tain. Then, standing up before the King and the
Bishop. he made an impressive address which
the Bishop learned later was aoout
the relations that ought to main
tain between brothers. Then he knelt
by the King. who raised his robes slightly so as
to disclose his leg bare to the knee The LIEN
tenant pricked the calf with the point of his
knife so that few drops Of blood ran. He caught
who, comprehending the situation rolled his
trousers part way up his legs The Lieutenant
made similar incision upon the Bishops calf
and caught the dropping blood in the same hand
that held the Kings blood. Then he stood IN
again and rubbed the palms of his bands ,oeeth-
OF 80 that the MOOD was thoroughly mixed, after
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-27
LEGAL SALES.
CHATHAM sHERIFF'S SALE.

TTNDER and by virtue Of n ia issued out of
u the office of Waring Russell, Jr., Justice of
the Peace for the second G. NJ. district,
Chatham county, in favor Of DANIEL O..
PURSE VS.. SAMUEL DANIELS. trustees for
Samuel Daniels, Jr levy having been made by
Henry Wetherhon, Constable Of Chatham
county, upon the following described property
of the said defendant, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land known upon
the map or plan OF the city OF Savannah as the
western half of lot number nine NO. 81, Marshall
ward, having a frontage Of thlrty.t30l feet, more
or less, on Duffy street, and running back TO
New Houston street lane, a distance OF one
hundred and five t105) feet, more or less, bounded
north by New Houston street lane, east by the
eastern half of said lot number nine south by
Duffy street, and west by lot number eight mo.
s. of said ward. And the said n ia with levy
thereon indorsed, turned over to me by said
Constable for sale.
/ viii offer the said above described property
for sale az public cutlery, before the court house
door of Chatham county, IN the city Of Sayan-
nah, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER,
1881, during the legal hours OF sale 10 satisfy
said Il ia, defendant having been notified OF
levy, time and place of sale Of the said prop
erty. JOHN 7. ROMAN,
sheriff. Chatham County. Ga
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-27
ONE OF A. WARDS LETTERS.
A Contribution Characteristic of the
Greatest of American Humorists.

A Contribution Characteristic of the
Greatest of American Humorists.
From the Neto York Mail and Express.
The following letter from Artemus
Ward, to little Elmira girl, and recently
published for the first time, is in the
possession of an Elmira IN. " gentle
man:
SALEM, MASS, June is, 1864
Mn Dear Amelia: | cannot tell you how
much miss you.
1t seems as though had lost all my rela-
tives, including my grandmother and the
cooking stove.
WHY didn't put you in a bottle and
bring YOU down here with me! But | am
always forgetting something. The other
day | went off and forgot my aunt Sarah,
and she's good deal bigger than you are.
Mr. Ramsey is also a very forgetful man.
He frequently goes off and forgets his
washerwoman. Mr.. Ramsey is a very fine
looking man. He reminds me Of Mr..
Green, the Maiden murderer. When Mr..
Ramsey goes to the penitentiary, which
will he very soon, we must send him some
doughnuts, magazines and other literary
documents. Mr.. Ramsey can read print
very well.
/ like you very much. l should like you
Just as well if you were twelve years
older. j am very singular about some
things
You spoke to me about boy who is my
rival. / should feel very sorry to kill that
boy, but he may drive me to it. | am in
hopes that he will take himself into pre-
mature tomb-that he will choke mself
with a large slice of pudding but if he does
neither shall feel forced To load him with
chains and read all my lectures to him.
That will finish him His boots may remain,
but the rest will have persisted miserably
long ere get through!
Yon must he good little girl, and al
ways mind your mother. Never let your
excellent mother feel sorry that she is ac-
quainted with you. If it hadn't been for
her you might have drowned in IA soup plate
long ago. And if you hadn't ever had any
mother You might have been turkey
with the turkeys. In fact, my dear
Amelia, so conduct yourself that even on
dark and rainy days the bright sun may
shine wherever you arc, and that the stars
(which are next 10 the sun in brightness)
may hever fash 80 brightly but that you
can always look steadily and hopefully to-
ward them. Faithfully, your friend:
A. WARD.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-27
CHATHAM SHERIFF'S SALE.


FINDER and by virtue of Il. ia issued out
- OF the Office of Thomas j. Sheftall, Justice
of the Peace for the Second q. NJ. district. Chat
ham county, in favor of EPSTEIN q WANR-
BACHER vs. +. X LEIGH, levy having been
made by Isaac II. Nathan Constable OF Chatham
county. upon the following described property
of the defendant, 10 wit:
All the undivided one sixth 80 interest OF
FREDERICK X. LEIGH In and TO all that Ger
tain LOT of land situate, lying and being IN the
city of Savannah county Of Chatham and
state Of Georgia, and known on the map or
plan of said city as lot number twenty-eight
mo. ~ Davis ward, said property pointed OFT
by plaintiff and the said fl. ia, with levy thereon
Endorsed, turned over 70 me by said Constable
for sale.
will offer the said above described property
for sale Al public oldcry before the Court House
door of Chatham county, In the city of Savan-
nah. on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER,
1881, during the legal hours o. sale, 10 satisfy
said II. IA. Defendant having been notified of
levy, time and place OF sale of said property.
JOHN T. ROMAN,
Sheriff e. Co.. Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-27
THE COLOR LINE IN KANSAS.
Quite as Much Prejudice There as
Even in Georgia.
From the NeU York World.

From the NeW York World.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. ga very
heated controversy is reported from Fort
Scott. thriving town of 1000 population
in Kansas, over an effort by the colored
people there to secure the admission of their
children TO the public schools The bitter
ness of the struggle to keep them out is per
haps hardly equalled IN the records of like
controversy in a Southern town. Consider
ing that bleeding Kansas was the issue on
which the slavery question was really first
precipitated into national politics and ulti-
lnately led TO the war in which
slavery was abolished: that the
nnti-slavery policy was not only triumph
ant in the Territory and state, but that
Kansas has ever since been the exponent or
anti-savery ideas and has been Republi-
can State from the birth of the party, the
controversy in the prosperous capital OF
Bourbon county may be said 10 have q
national interest Certainly nothing SAID
in behalf Of the much-discussed Glenn bill
IN Georgia is more virtuperative against the
admission Of colored children TO Fellowship
with white in pubic schools than mas
marked the discussion before the kepubll-
can School Committee in Fort Scott. HUI
man nature seems to be much the same
thing whether in Republican Kansas or
Democratic Georgia
A dispatch 10 the Times from Fort Scott
gives q graphic description of the excite
inent. The question, says the correspondent,
had been "a source of disturbance in that city
az the Opening Of every school term M 70
l@., when large new school-house, con
tanning four rooms. was built exclusively
tor the colored children at the request Of the
aol0fed people themselves IL Vas regularly
graded and four competent eoloI'ed teachers
employed. This seemed b. give entire sotis-
faction until the present year. During the
past summer three new schO0l-houses were
butt a. accommodate the increasing pupil
age ~ the city. These were restricted "
NE whites, giving tbsm seven out - ibe
i9Rht school houses The coiored population
haye made W flflr minds that tins y nn
unjust dlgTimination. and now lnea 80
lnixei SCHOOLS ia order that they fnay enJ0y,
equally with TIE whites the advantages "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-27
Am omelette of scorpions.


A curious dish was prepared the Other
day for British Traveller In Mexico The
attendants served up an onlelette and the
servants paItook very heartily Of the dainty
lnorsel, bat the trayeler Iaisti1isted the food,
owing 30 certain black particles mixed
therein. IDqniring ~ ~ the nature ~ the
Suspicious ingredients, he could Beafeely Do.
lIeve hls ear when the reply was gwen,
',Oh. those are SCORPIONS and IN inyestlga.
ton proved this % b. ffua, tlle lower orders
h Mexloo thus utilizing tic young scor-
plOna. which are Dig Oli, hundreds lu a
neai, their sling being cut N before c0pk.
ine